One People's Project
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| Type | Non-profit corporation |
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| Purpose | Civil liberties advocacy, anti-racism |
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| Website | onepeoplesproject.com |
One Peoples Project (OPP) is an organisation founded in 2000 to monitor and publish information about alleged racist and far right groups and individuals, mostly in the United States. The group has about fifteen volunteers in addition to its most prominent members -- Daryle Lamont Jenkins, its founder, and Joshua Hoyt, who joined the group in 2002, It has been called "the most mainstream and well-known anti-fascist or antifa", organization in the United States. Its motto is “Hate Has Consequences.”
OPP originated from a July 4, 2000 protest against a Nationalist Movement rally in Morristown, New Jersey that was billed as Independence from Affirmative-Action Day. The counter-demonstration was called the One People's Rally. Three hundred anti-racist protesters turned out to face nine supporters of the Nationalist Movement. At the time, Jenkins was a member of the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based group New Jersey Freedom Organization (NJFO). Originally named One People's Coalition, with Jenkins as its spokesperson, the group researched and published information about the Nationalist Movement's awards ceremony at the Manville Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. This led to the cancellation of the event.
Over the next year, the renamed One People's Project broadened their focus, to publish information on their website about American conservatives, ranging from the mainstream to far right. In November 2001, OPP began focusing heavily on white supremacist groups that were attempting to take advantage of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The most notable of these groups was the Hillsboro, West Virginia-based National Alliance.
OPP has published phone numbers, home addresses and workplace addresses of individuals they have identified as being far right and/or racist. While this practice has invited criticism by those who say that it can incite others to violence, the group has defended this practice as using the same free speech rights that anti-abortion activists use when they do the same to abortion providers.
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